If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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